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VICTORY | MOWI Scotland admits defeat and announces closure of salmon farm which failed environmental standards for over a decade.
Campaigners and community organisations have welcomed the news that following years of pressure a salmon farm operated by MOWI Scotland in a Marine Protected Area has been forced to close and has relinquished its site lease with the Crown Estate Scotland. The company failed environmental standards continuously since 2006 at its Isle Ewe site.
MOWI bosses had claimed that,
"“The site will be closed conditional to the support from our regulatory system to transfer the biomass to other locations and to sustainably expand our production…."
But this was firmly rebutted by www.issf.org.uk at the time,
Mr Smith said this stance was “ridiculous”.
“It’s a thoroughly empty statement because the idea the law would permit the unilateral transferring of biomass from one farm to another on the basis of the original farm failing its environmental standards is ridiculous,” he added.
He said he believed the “idea that Mowi could take non-compliant biomass and dump it somewhere else is an absolute nonsense.”
“Mowi, the Norwegian salmon farming giant,
Campaigners and community organisations have welcomed the news that following years of pressure a salmon farm operated by MOWI Scotland in a Marine Protected Area has been forced to close and has relinquished its site lease with the Crown Estate Scotland. The company failed environmental standards continuously since 2006 at its Isle Ewe site.
MOWI bosses had claimed that,
"“The site will be closed conditional to the support from our regulatory system to transfer the biomass to other locations and to sustainably expand our production…."
But this was firmly rebutted by www.issf.org.uk at the time,
Mr Smith said this stance was “ridiculous”.
“It’s a thoroughly empty statement because the idea the law would permit the unilateral transferring of biomass from one farm to another on the basis of the original farm failing its environmental standards is ridiculous,” he added.
He said he believed the “idea that Mowi could take non-compliant biomass and dump it somewhere else is an absolute nonsense.”
“Mowi, the Norwegian salmon farming giant,